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Monday 8 September 2008

Kid Rock's best "Summer" ever

Riding high on the hit "All Summer Long," Kid Rock called from the back porch of his gap outside Detroit. Early in our conversation, he aforementioned he hoped not to say anything "too stupid."

That's up to you, I replied.

He laughed: "That's the problem."

Q: There's a synergism between you and Lynyrd Skynyrd. You share a management company and you sample "Sweet Home Alabama" in "All Summer Long." And for a Detroit boy, you sure accept a fondness for the Rebel flag.

A: I

Saturday 9 August 2008

Facing New York

Artist: Facing New York

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

Facing New York

Year: 2005
Tracks: 10

Despite the band distinguish, Facing New York herald from the toughie careen mecca of the San Francisco Bay Area setting, a second-generation emo circle with some progressive and post-rock tendencies that grew verboten of deuce minor earlier outfits. Singer and guitarist Eric Frederic and keyboardist Rene Carranza's band, Locale A.M., had released iI albums, 2001's The Sounds of Spring and 2003's Breaking the Fourth Wall, before ripping. Their labelmates on the local Pop Smear imprint, Tragedy Andy, had released 2003's It's Never Too Late to Start Over earlier guitarist Matthew Fazzi and drummer Omar Cuellar took its titular advice and left to form Facing New York with Frederic and Carranza in early 2004, adding bassist Brandon Canchola to complete the lineup. Joining the 2004 Vans Warped Tour and recording a self-released EP, Swimming Not Treading, the band raised its visibility enough to sign with the indie label Five One Records. Following iI more singles, one of them a split EP with Amity, Facing New York released their self-titled debut album in the summer of 2005. Work on the follow-up was delayed when Rene Carranza announced in the summertime of 2006 that he was exit the isthmus to render to school. With Fazzi and Frederic splitting keyboard chores betwixt them, Facing New York chose to keep as a quartette.

Tuesday 1 July 2008

Pamela Anderson auctions car for PETA cause

LOS ANGELES —

Pamela Anderson has auctioned her sporty 2000 Dodge Viper for $65,000 as a donation to animal-rights activists to run an anti-snake slaughter campaign.

Michael McGraw, a spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said the group will use the cash to raise awareness about the cruel methods used to skin animals such as snakes and crocodiles, particularly in India.

According to PETA, these animals, whose exotic skins are popularly used in handbags and shoes, are often skinned alive, and suffer for hours or even days before dying.

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Wednesday 25 June 2008

Raging Speedhorn

Artist: Raging Speedhorn

   Genre(s):
Rock
   Other

Discography:

Before The Sea Was Built

Year: 2007
Tracks: 10

The Gush EP

Year: 2002
Tracks: 2

British metallers Raging Speedhorn formed in the Midlands town of Corby in August 1998 as an dental amalgam of two bands: drummer Frank Regan and Gareth Smith (guitar) and Darren Smith (bass) were in Soulcellar and vocalizer Jon Loughlin, his guitarist brother Tony, and drummer Gordon Morison played in Box. As the new isthmus had deuce drummers, Regan switched to vocals.

Career themselves Raging Speedhorn, after a slang term for a male erecting induced by amphetamines, the circle recorded deuce demos with Cubanate guitarist Roddy Stone producing. A third base demonstration and positively charged write-ups in the rock press started to spread head the band's name. In July 1999, Raging Speedhorn supported Ministry in London and a support enlistment with earthtone9 followed in November.

More supports with Will Haven, Tribute to Nothing, and Kittie were fitted in around the recording of their self-titled debut album. July 2000 power saw Raging Speedhorn act their first headline U.K. enlistment. The album's release followed a calendar month afterwards to honest notices in the rock-and-roll and metal weightlift.

A major European enlistment encouraging Biohazard was followed by debauched European and Japanese dates with Amen. In May 2001, Raging Speedhorn was one of the possibility bands at the U.K. Ozzfest. In June, new single "The Gush," produced by Biohazard's Billy Graziadei and Danny Schuler, entered the U.K. Top 50 and their debut album was reissued shortly later. After playacting the Japanese Beast Fest and the U.K. leg of the Tattoo the Planet enlistment, the isthmus began recording their second album.

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Monday 16 June 2008

Arnold Schwarzenegger - Fascinating Fact 5440

Action man-turned California Governor ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER helped build a wall outside SEX PISTOLS frontman JOHN LYDON's former Marina Del Rey, California home when he was a bodybuilding bricklayer dreaming of Hollywood success.

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Sunday 1 June 2008

Dinosaurs tour a massive undertaking

NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Look out, Barney. There's a new dinosaur on the family touring scene.

Actually, there are several. Walking With Dinosaurs: The Live Experience stomped onto the Australian and North American touring radar in 2007. After launching in Australia early in the year, the show segued to North America in summer 2007 via a partnership with Arena Network, a consortium of nearly 50 arenas in the United States, Canada and Mexico. It quickly became one of the top five family shows of the last 12 months, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore.

A collaboration between BBC Worldwide and Creature Production Co., the show is based on acclaimed BBC documentary series "Walking With Dinosaurs," which first aired in 1999 in the United Kingdom and subsequently came to North America on the Discovery Channel.

The six-episode TV series is the most expensive documentary series ever made, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, and the tour is also an expensive proposition. Roughly $20 million has been spent thus far to create the dinosaurs and launch the tour.

The massive undertaking involves 27 53-foot tractor-trailers and 65 crew members, including lighting technicians, engineers, puppeteers, actors, sound people and carpenters.

"We bring everything from the flooring to the rigging, to the lighting, sound and obviously the dinosaurs themselves," says resident director Cameron Wenn, who travels with the show and is charged with ensuring that the experience is consistent from city to city. The show is limited to arenas that can host hockey games because of the floor space needed for the giant animatronic dinosaurs.

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Ten species are represented in the show's 15 creatures, which were built in Melbourne. Among the dinosaurs are a mother and daughter Tyrannosaurus Rex and a 38-foot-tall brachiosaurus. "She's as tall as a three- to four-story building," Wenn says.